Nobody wants World War 3.
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As the refrain in the hit song made famous by the Temptations, Edwin Starr, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and others asks: War? What is it good for?
We can all reply: Absolutely nothing.
Even in a classroom in Shellharbour we feel concerned about what is happening in a country not that far away from our own.
North Korea, it appears, is begging for war. Only this week we saw proof of that with the North Korean dictator experimenting with a hydrogen bomb and the nation’s television propaganda hailing it as “a perfect success”.
Everyone’s great fear is that the next war could be a nuclear war.
We all hope it is just a bit of show in the end and North Korea won’t take any action that leads to an escalation of the situation.
It is worth noting other countries have nuclear weapons too, not just North Korea. That’s the dilemma we face.
If North Korea launches a nuclear weapon other countries respond accordingly.
We hope and we pray the US doesn’t want to get into war.
We are worried for the countries around North Korea.
North Korea hasn’t had great success with their missile programs as history has proven.
We feel relatively safe in this country given our distance from the danger zone, but we care because we are allies of the US.
The last time US went to war, we went with them.
Our men and women serving our country died.
We have family and friends serving in the military and people connected with our school are serving or have served on the front line of conflicts.
Some of our family members have been involved in peacekeeping missions in East Timor in the ‘90s.
We would love to see this issue resolved diplomatically.
Nobody wants a war.
We prefer a world where we didn’t have to worry about our world leaders playing nuclear games.
We’re quite happy with the world the way it is thank you very much Mr Trump and Mr Jong-Un.
War is good for “absolutely nothing”.
Today’s editorial was created by the grade six students at Stella Maris Catholic Primary School Shellharbour as part of a workshop with Illawarra Mercury editor Julian O’Brien on persuasive texts.
